MANGOLASSI World/Con/give me a name idea please
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Agreed, it needs a name that kinda screams tech.
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NerdCon?
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@Minion-Queen said:
Yeah that is why I debate on the name cause you don't want to have a hard time explaining things to the boss. We also plan on having very high level IT training so I want it taken seriously.
I've been toying with names around Decisions / Connections / Influencers but haven't found anything yet that works.
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Anti-Raid 5 Alliance?
Anti-Raid 5 Congress? (ARC!) -
I could easily participate with a session on the true costs of moving to VoIP or something. I was going to offer a presentation around this for SW but I had a server meltdown at one client in March when I started to put together my presentation. I never got back to it before the cutoff.
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@nadnerB said:
Anti-Raid 5 Alliance?
Anti-Raid 5 Congress? (ARC!)Didn't you hear? RAID 5 is back with SSDs.
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@Dashrender said:
@nadnerB said:
Anti-Raid 5 Alliance?
Anti-Raid 5 Congress? (ARC!)Didn't you hear? RAID 5 is back with SSDs.
Raid 5: Electric Boogaloo
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@coliver That just sounds like a song title, lol.
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I'm not convinced on the concept of "deep dive training" that can be delivered in a single hour.
More likely, you'll spend a day in the given subject, or x hours over a number of weeks.
Would you like to learn Exchange? Oh ok, we can cover a few things.
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having something in the title that denotes SMB IT would be awesome. Or that tells people that it is about getting social with IT. But no idea how to do that without having a really cheesy name.
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What about something simple like TechCon?
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These will not be one hour sessions.
Idea at this point: 3-6 hours on a subject
With a few different tracks to choose from
There will be a full lab situations to play in as well -
I definitely like the SMB aspect of your idea Scott. Not sure about the social aspect - management will probably frown on that, think we are all just sitting around getting drunk, etc..
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This will be 2 full days of real training not marketing.
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@Minion-Queen said:
This will be 2 full days of real training not marketing.
Awesome that is my biggest complaint about SW. Most of the vendor session that talk about new tech are really just marketing.
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@Dashrender said:
@nadnerB said:
Anti-Raid 5 Alliance?
Anti-Raid 5 Congress? (ARC!)Didn't you hear? RAID 5 is back with SSDs.
That's not the point. I was going for cool sounding, not practical
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@nadnerB said:
@Dashrender said:
@nadnerB said:
Anti-Raid 5 Alliance?
Anti-Raid 5 Congress? (ARC!)Didn't you hear? RAID 5 is back with SSDs.
That's not the point. I was going for cool sounding, not practical
touche
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@coliver said:
@Minion-Queen said:
This will be 2 full days of real training not marketing.
Awesome that is my biggest complaint about SW. Most of the vendor session that talk about new tech are really just marketing.
Yes, outside of Rob's session each year, it is generally a tech-free zone with just marketing talk. Some sessions are better than others. The ethical hacking was ridiculous, like "security for your grandparents" explaining super basic things like "how you get a trojan" rather than talking about ethical hacking. Definitely no meant for IT people.
There is some value is product presentations, like Scale and Exablox who have complex products that people don't know about. But having nothing but that is tough.
SW suffers from having to have SW product sessions, vendor product sessions and then having a tech session or two. Plus tons and tons of "common" stuff like big keynote sessions, long sessions on giveaways, internal product marketing, etc. That stuff eats up a lot of time and it makes sense that they do it but if your goal is the tech sessions, there just isn't time.
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SW and MangoCon are really two very different conference ideas. Figuring out exactly what MangoCon will be will be.... interesting, I am sure. SW has evolved a lot since 2008, it has taken several years to find its groove. And it is still changing a lot.
